JUKOLA 2014 Venlojen viesti

Jukola a.k.a. the biggest orienteering event.
This year in the beautiful area of Kuopio Finland.


I ran 4th (last) leg of Venlojen viesti for my swedish club SNO.
We took 35th place. Which is nice among so many teams running. But my performance could have been better (see below), yet still it was an amazing competition in a beautiful terrain and forest!
My admiration goes to Frida, our first leg runner, for her outstanding performance! But of course many thanks to the whole team!

Kuopio-Jukola 2014 website
GPS 

10Mila, Eksjö 2014

Great event and experience as always!

Tack allihop!

This year I moved from running the first leg (as I was used to for past two years on both 10Mila and Venla-Jukola) to running the last one. It was quite a change but I was really looking forward to fight the last 9,2 km for the team.

Unfortunately, we got bad luck this year and things weren't going as we had expected. Our first leg runner Frida twisted her ankle quite badly in the begining of the leg, but she was tough! She fought till the finishline. Then it was on us. I think we all did a good job. And we were climbing up taking up the places. We finished 39th.

My performance could have been better. I'm upset about the mistake I made to no.5 and then no.7 (while I got a  bit stressed from the previous one). Otherwise I really enjoyed it! 

                                       

 GPS tracking

Following the mens relay during the night was fun as well. Boys were running really good on each leg and I was so happy to cheer for them as they were finishing on the 3rd place!

by Urban Larsson